Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...
Tristan und Isolde (Fri. 11:45 p. m. NBC-Blue). Act III of Richard Wagner's opera of love and death from the Chicago City Opera with Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad in the title roles...
Physicist Lawrence and his brother, Physician John Hundale Lawrence, soon discovered that neutron rays directed at animals act with much greater force and selectivity than X-rays, are five times more lethal for tumor tissue than X-rays but in tumor-killing doses considerably easier on normal tissue...
Persuaded that there is "substantially complete control over the industry by a few large distributors," Trust Buster Arnold last July launched a grand-jury investigation in Chicago. Last week two criminal indictments under the Sherman Act resulted. One charged 14 corporations and 43 individuals with conspiracy to fix prices and control the supply of liquid milk in the Chicago area. The other charged 20 corporations and 20 individuals with a nationwide conspiracy to restrain the sale and use of counter-freezers with which retailers, hospitals, schools, etc., could make their own ice cream...
...took refuge under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. Steered by Chairman Kenneth David Steere, who as a partner of Paine, Webber & Co. handled many a market operation for the Vans, it presently submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...